When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...

Sometimes a headline seems to speak directly to you, as if written not by an anonymous stranger but by a friend with intimate knowledge...

Tomorrow is December 16–for some, just another Tuesday in late fall; for others, Beethoven’s birthday; and for Janeites, of course, the...

“Fierce divisions have broken out among the Guardian books team as to whether this video, bringing a statue of Jane Austen to life, is...

Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...

The biggest news in the Janeite world last week was the unveiling of a new waxwork of Our Jane at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath,...